Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Project” BRIDGING3GENERATIONS” by Vasilica Gazdac
Our Project " BRIDGING3GENERATIONS: Timeless Games and Toys " intends to gather three generations( grandparents – parents – children) through games and toys of the oldest generation to help pre-school children learning and playing games and toys of his / her grandparents. In this digitized world, one of the most challenging problems is to establish ties, bonds and bridges between the oldest living generation and post-millennium generation. Today, oldest living generation faces severe problems with integrating to new digital world. However, they are unique source of knowledge and experience in many different aspects. When they vanish from the earth, we will lose the opportunity to learn from them. In this project, we intend to make a journey to their childhood, we will uncover their games and toys. We will redesign and redevelop them with the opportunities of modern age in order to teach them to the newest generation. We need to teach to the newest generation because it is already a fact that they consider games and toys as only software and touch pad that they can play with only finger tips. Communication and establishing ties between the pupils is also an essential requirement of eTwinning Program. We started this project in January 2015 on eTwinning platform then we received grant funding for Erasmus + KA219, call 2015.
There are numerous projects already realized on games and toys. Discovery of the traditional games and toys itself will be organized as an opportunity to increase interaction between the oldest living generation( grandparents) and youngest generation( grandchildren) at schools. The Partners of the Project are as follows: 1) Haci Sabanci Secondary School( Coordinator School, Turkey) 2) St Colman’ s Primary School and All Saints’ Nursery Unit( United Kingdom) 3) Notre Dame Junior High School( France) 4) International School of Bergen( Norway) 5) State School Istituto Comprensivo via Santi Savarino( Italy) 6) School Tiberiu Morariu Salva( Romania) 7) Nicola Vaptsarov Secondary School( Bulgaria) 8) Grundzales Pamatskola( Latvia)
The project will run two years and includes learning activities, study tours, workshops with grandparents and parents of children, designing a curriculum, teaching materials, books, interactive maps, digital applications, games, calendars and learning mobility and virtual mobility of students.
The tasks and responsibilities under the project have been assigned to the partners according to their competences, skills and capabilities reported during negotiations before filing the application form. Each project activity planned has a leading partner who is responsible for coordinating the activity, develops the instructions of the activity together with the coordinator.
First short term joint staff training activity of the Project was conducted in 26-30 October 2015 in Ankara( Turkey). Our all partners deserve special thanks for their commitment and dedication to the project as all partners showed up in Ankara only 15 days after evil terrorist explosion on 10 th October 2015. The results of the SWOT analysis were shared during the workshops. The emblem designed by a pupil of Italian partner was selected as official emblem of the project getting majority of the votes. The project anthem composed by Latvian partner was accepted as official anthem of the project for using in visibility and dissemination activities. Dedicated workshops were delivered by volunteer lecturers from Gazi University on“ How to Develop an Educational Program” and“ Intangible Cultural Heritage”. The project delegation also
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